He can retire from Presidential ambition after this year holding his head high. He did better than most reasonable expectations based on his platform.

--Anthony

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"In every war, the state enacts a tax of freedom upon the citizenry. The unspoken promise is that the tax shall be revoked at war's end. Endless war holds no such promise. Hence, Eternal War is Eternal Slavery." --Admiral Robert J. Henner

When Ron Paul was leading, GOP decided to COUNT THE VOTES IN A SECRET LOCATION OUT OF STATE. Because Anonymous was going to hack the PAPER ballots.

ABSENTEE BALLOTS ARE NEVER COUNTED BEFORE A WINNER IS ANNOUNCED.

NO IDENTIFICATION REQUIRED to vote in the Iowa caucus.

The Iowa Election Commission website results crashed last night.

Ron Paul was leading by double digits in most polls last night, with 58% ON THE NBC POLL, except for Microsoft NBC General Electric (the nice folks who build nuclear bombs and nuked Fukushima and genocided 15,000 American babies with the radioactive fallout, getting rich off Obama's 7 wars).

Most states use FOREIGN PRIVATE MILITARY CONTRACTORS TO COUNT ELECTRONIC VOTES.

Since no Democrat candidate will run against Dictator Hussein Obama Sotoro, Democrats are flooding the Iowa GOP primary and will flood all other primaries to vote against the only candidate who can beat Obama, Goldman Sachs and the private foreign "Federal" Reserve Bank -- Ron Paul.

Never mind that NO VOTES ARE COUNTED BY THE GOVERNMENT IN ANY PRESIDENTIAL RACE and are NEVER BASED ON ACTUAL VOTES.

Quote:The Voter News Service was a consortium whose mission was to provide results for United States presidential elections, so that individual organizations and networks would not have to do exit polling and vote tallying in parallel. A possibly unwritten secondary mission of the Voter News Service was to provide election results as quickly as possible on election night—a point which came to haunt the VNS in the 2000 presidential election.

The VNS received intense criticism for its 'flip-flop' calling of the state of Florida in that election[citation needed]. During the course of the evening, it first called the closely contested state of Florida for Al Gore, then George W. Bush, and then as 'too close to call'. Critics argued that the state should never have been called until the state's fate was clear. The Voter News Service also received specific criticism for calling the state of Florida for Al Gore before the polls closed in the Florida panhandle, which was located in the Central Time Zone and heavily Republican. In addition, criticism also came because of the call for Bush which occurred before precincts in Broward, Palm Beach Volusia, and Miami-Dade Counties, all democratic, reported their results to the state which occurred after the networks called the state for Bush well after 2 AM eastern standard time.

Disasters were almost comical. Many of the more than 30,000 temporary workers collecting exit-poll information were disconnected from VNS' new voice-recognition system before they could finish inputting data over the phone. Some poll workers were unable to access the system at all. Live operators weren't always a help, as the phone system periodically crashed under the crush of callers dialing in.

Using computers was not much of an alternative. News organizations and other VNS subscribers were repeatedly instructed to log off their machines, so the new servers running BEA Systems' WebLogic application server could be rebooted.

When users finally were able to access the system, they quickly discovered they were being presented with incomplete and inaccurate information. For instance, early exit-polling data indicated that Erskine Bowles was leading Elizabeth Dole in the North Carolina senatorial race. As the day progressed and more exit-poll data was added, that margin grew.

However, when the actual votes were tallied, Dole won the election by almost 200,000 votes, a convincing victory.

"It was a joke," one political analyst at a major television network told Baseline. "It became obvious to everyone that this wasn't going to work. There wasn't enough testing. There was not enough collaboration between the networks and the IT people. And, worse, there was nothing we could do about it. You can't postpone an election."

Network executives quickly concluded they would not use the bulk of the data they were able to collect, particularly the exit-polling information. Projecting winners and losers in various races would take several hours longer than in the past.

Also, the networks would be unable to give the type of detailed explanations as to why voters voted the way they did this time around. For example, according to TV network analysts working the election, the networks wouldn't be able to tell viewers why particular demographic groups voted for specific candidates nor the issues that they considered most or least important when voting.

As a result of their election night forecasts, the television networks and their Voter News Service (VNS) have more than just egg on their faces.

They may also have some legal trouble. The American Antitrust Institute in Washington, D.C. is urging the Justice Department to split up the VNS following an election night of botched calls.

The VNS was formed by ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox and the Associated Press in 1990 in an effort to save millions of dollars in exit polling costs. But critics say the New York company, which operates as a limited liability corporation for its funding members, has a virtual monopoly on election-night polling.

In 2002, the VNS intended to make calls in the November U.S. Congressional and Senate elections. It attempted to use a computer designed for VNS by an outside contractor to do this. A system failure occurred in this computer on election night, making quick delivery of data impossible. In fact, collecting and delivering the data took ten months.

In January 2003, the Voter News Service was disbanded largely because of failures in 2000 and 2002. Murray Edelman, VNS editorial director, criticized the decision as making the VNS a scapegoat.

Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International conducted exit polls in each state and
nationally for the National Election Pool (ABC, AP, CBS, CNN, FOX, NBC). The polls should
be referred to as a National Election Pool (or NEP) Exit Poll, conducted by Edison/Mitofsky.
All questionnaires were prepared by NEP. The National exit poll was conducted at a sample of 250 polling places among 11719 Election
Day voters representative of the United States.

In the 2004 presidential election, a new organization called National Election Pool was set up by the same organizations, utilizing consultants Edison/Mitofsky for exit polling and Associated Press for official returns. However, the NEP had controversies of its own for 2004 when it released exit polling data early that was significantly different than the final results.

The organizers of the pool insist that the purpose of their quick collection of exit poll data is not to determine if an election is flawed, but rather to project winners of races. Despite past problems, they note that none of their members has incorrectly called a winner since the current system was put in place. [1] However, to avoid the premature leaking of data, collection is now done in a "Quarantine Room" at an undisclosed location in New York. All participants are stripped of outside communications devices until it's time for information to be released officially.

CTS, I take back what I said; Iowa obviously IS of value. Getting rid of Bachman definitely increases my enjoyment (if you can call it that these days) of the news. Maybe rather: "definitely makes the need to change channels less frequent, since the word "enjoyment" is certainly inappropriate!

Too bad she didn't quit Congress in order to run...sadly, we'll still have to hear her spout idiocy...

Bah, Romney's finances won't stand close inspection, nor will some of the other skullduggery he's been involved in on top of his Hellcamp connections, and trying to clean his backtrail just makes him look guiltier than he already is - as I said, conga lines of skellies in them closets...

Which leaves ole Dick Sanctimonius, who's a stone hypocrite, blatant zionista, so intolerant on multiple issues the freakin Klan would root for him if he wasn't a damn zionista, and who has less respect for free speech and expression than your typical tinpot junta dictator - keeping in fine Republican tradition with fellow scumbags like Adams and Lincoln(1), oh and did I mention he's a crook ?

And then there's Ron Paul, whom I'll not support so long as his affiliation is to people like these cause IMHO that's a lot like if the Pope started hanging out with the Klan - how the hell could you ever trust him, and even if you did, there's this little problem with who his friends are....

Way to go, GOP!

-Frem
(1) Wilson does not escape my wrath here, even if he was a fuckin dimbulbcrat, and no, I don't like THEM neither.

Pretty much what I think, Frem. Santorum's skelletons are already starting to peek out of the closet--like his involvement in the Ensign mess and more. His views and "promises" what to do when he's "elected" are scary as hell...soon as those get play, nobody in their right mind will vote for him. Which only leaves the evangelicals, Tea Partiers (maybe) and ultra-right wingers, who aren't nearly as numerous as some like to think...at least outside Iowa...

I see Perry "went home to pray on it" and bounced back the next morning. Hah! That translates to "he got some money", probably, doesn't it?

Why would a Ron Paul vote counter be stupid enough to not videotape and photograph everything going on while counting the votefraud? This is the #1 problem with Ron Paul and his supporters, they don't have a clue about FIGHTING corruption -- and WINNING. EVERY county has corruption vote fraud, SO BE PREPARED FOR IT.

DES MOINES, Iowa -- Caucus night was chaotic in many places, with hundreds of voters, candidates showing up and the throngs of media who followed. The world's eyes were on Iowa. But in the quiet town of Moulton, Appanoose County, a caucus of 53 people may just blow up the results.

Edward True, 28, of Moulton, said he helped count the votes and jotted the results down on a piece of paper to post to his Facebook page. He said when he checked to make sure the Republican Party of Iowa got the count right, he said he was shocked to find they hadn't.

True said at his 53-person caucus at the Garrett Memorial Library, Romney received two votes. According to the Iowa Republican Party's website, True's precinct cast 22 votes for Romney.

"This is huge," True said. "It essentially changes who won."

A spokeswoman with the Iowa Republican Party said True is not a precinct captain and he's not a county chairperson so he has no business talking about election results. She also said the party would not be giving interviews about possible discrepancies until the caucus vote is certified.

KCCI political analyst Dennis Goldford said even if the caucus results are wrong, it's not the end of the world.

"This will make Iowa look a little foolish in the eyes of the rest of the country, which already questions the seriousness of the caucuses," Goldford said. But in terms of Santorum's results here, the Caucuses have made him a player in presidential politics and if he should nudge ahead of Gov. Romney for the final certified result that's really not going to make any significant difference at this point."

True -- who said he's a Ron Paul supporter -- hopes it was a simple mistake.

But he said he won't stop talking about it until the state -- by his count -- gets the numbers right.

"Numbers that I personally witnessed being counted and assisted in counting and am certain are right," he said.

Iowa Republican Party Chairman Matt Strawn said late Thursday that the party headquarters spoke with Appanoose County Republican officials and they do not have any reason to believe the final, certified results of the county will change the outcome of Tuesday's vote.

Reached a short time later, True said he is absolutely certain his numbers are correct and he stands by his statement. True said he confirmed his numbers with his precinct captain and his county party chairman.

True reiterated Thursday night that he is 100-percent certain that his figures from that night were correct. He said he has checked with his precinct chairman and the GOP county chairman and they confirmed his numbers.

Appanoose County Republican Chairman Lyle Brinegar said Friday that his records indicate Romney did indeed only receive 2 votes in True's precinct. He told KCCI the county's paperwork is in order and he's confident the mistake will be corrected before the vote is certified.

Caucus Chair Backs True

Precinct caucus chair, Tony Seibert also said yes, Mitt Romney only received two votes in his precinct, not the 22 the GOP is reporting.

Seibert said he's willing to wait for the certified results to see if the error is corrected.

"Everybody's getting so upset over this. Let's wait until all the vote totals are in," said Seibert.

Seibert said he doesn't want to speculate, but said it's possible it was just a typo that will soon be corrected.

"That's the great thing about America," Seibert said. "We're allowed to make reasonable mistakes."

Friday Update

KCCI News spoke to True in Moulton on Friday. True said the media attention that has arisen from his story with KCCI is, "blowing my mind."

True said he has received calls from Fox News and Anderson Cooper's show. He said he searched the web and was surprised to find international coverage of what he had to say.

True stands by the numbers he wrote down that night, and with the help of Watch The Vote 2012, he's finding other precincts that also experienced discrepancies.

True said he heard what Rick Santorum said the GOP told him about another error in Romney's favor canceling out his error.

Passing by the usual PN idiocy, now it's New Hampshire and there's little on CNN or MSNBC or the others EXCEPT bouncing around what today's results would be. Sure be glad when all this shit is over!

So whaddya think? I imagine there's already a good vote count by now (given I get up in the Pacific time zone), but I haven't checked the news. Was half surprised to see Huntsman getting HIS turn at moving up, I really thought he'd never get any play, but given the roller coaster, I guess it's not surprising. He's pretty much the only one left to get his turn. And I"m TICKLED to see Romney's Bane Capital (or is it Bain?) stuff come out; it's about time and I've been SO sick of his playing "Jjb creator" when it's actually the opposite, I was waiting for his comeuppance.

So I wonder how it turned out? Will go check, then start looking for stuff to watch other than the news, which has already no doubt begun to turn to So. Carolina...sigh. My DVD library and Netflix are getting much more play these days, not to mention crappy movies on OnDemand. Sick to death of it, and there's nearly a year to go... Yuck.

Quote:But even as Romney basked in his win – he addressed a crowd of elated supporters less than half an hour after the polls closed... With nearly two-fifths of precincts reporting, Romney was drawing 37 percent of the vote to Paul’s 28 percent. In third place was Jon Huntsman, with 17 percent, followed by Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, both with approximately 10 percent.

Funny how there's no official govt website in NH with the vote totals posted, same as Iowa...

Funny how They declare a "winner" and Romney declares himself a winner with only 30% of the votes "counted"... That's like Iowa with Romney officially LOST by 12 votes, yet They declare him the "winner", despite the same number of delegates as Ron Paul.

So how many delegates did Mitt get compared to Ron Paul, the same number as Ron Paul? That's a TIE not a "win".

CNN Israeli Mossad jew Dana Bash told her husband, CNN anchor Israeli Mossad jew John King, that is she and the GOP are “worried” about Ron Paul’s success today in New Hampshire. Note that it is Bash who has been tasked with following Ron Paul around on behalf of CNN. Paul’s campaign yesterday cut off an interview with her after she tried to blame Paul for the media swarm in a New Hampshire restaurant that forced Paul to cut short a meet and greet, a fracas that was wholly a creation of the media itself.
http://www.infowars.com/cnns-dana-bash-worried-about-ron-pauls-success/

At the time of this post, only 60% of NH votes have been "counted", with zero absentee votes counted from US soldiers soon to die in 8 wars.......... So how do They know who REALLY won?

If it ends up being Mitt Romney, count on him to get trounced by Obama in November. Romney is a guaranteed loser, and every Conservative knows it, actually screamed it months ago before the first debate.

Quote:If it ends up being Mitt Romney, count on him to get trounced by Obama in November. Romney is a guaranteed loser, and every Conservative knows it, actually screamed it months ago before the first debate.

It WILL end up being Romney, barring any totally unimaginable freak thing happening, and ditto that he WILL lose to Obama. If they keep up the way they have been going, ANY of these nutcases will lose. They're just too far "out there" for most Americans to accept. If any of them, like Ron Paul, opts to stay in as a third-party candidate, that will GUARANTEE IT.

This has been the weirdest election cycle I've ever seen, on the right. I'm really hoping they learn from this (not the candidates, they're not capable of learning, but the Republicans themselves and the GOP) and work to get back to sanity next time around. I still thing Chris Christie and all the other relatively viable candidates saw what was going on, chalked up this election and didn't want to be seen with this slate of nutbags, and are biding their time until 2016. At least I fervently HOPE so!

This has been the biggest joke that's not funny that I can recall in a long, long time. It's ALMOST embarrassing, as an American, except that I know such things (and worse) have happened in other countries. But it's damned close...if I were a Republican, it WOULD be downright embarrassing. Well, if I were saner than the candidates are, that is...

Federal District Court Judge John Gibney ruled against Texas Governor Rick Perry and other Republican presidential candidates who sued in an effort to appear on the ballot for the Virginia Republican primary in March.

“In essense, they played the game, lost, and then complained that the rules were unfair,” wrote Judge Gibney in his opinion released Friday afternoon in Richmond, Virginia.

The suit was originally filed by Texas Governor Rick Perry.

Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, and Jon Hunstman later joined the challenge.

According to documents, the candidates asked the Court for a preliminary injunction ordering that they be listed on the ballot for the Virginia Republican primary despite the fact all failed to meet the 10,000 signature petition requirements to get on the ballot.

Only candidates Mitt Romney and Ron Paul met the requirements.

The candidates argue the 10,000 signature requirement and the Virginia rule that only people eligible to register to vote may collect the petitions violates the Constitution.

They also challenged Virginia's rule that required candidates secure 400 signatures from voters in each congressional district calling it "burdensome."

The judge ruled Virginia rules do infringe on First Amendment rights, but the challenge from the candidates came too late for courts to take action.

In his opinion, Judge Gibney wrote, "They [the candidates hoping to appear on the ballot] knew the rules in Virginia many months ago; the limitations on circulators affected them as soon as they began to circulate petitions. The plaintiffs could have challenged the Virginia law at that time. Instead, they waited until after the time to gather petitions had ended and they had lost the political battle to be on the ballot; then on the eve of the printing of absentee ballots, they decided to challenge Virginia's laws."

The ACLU of Virginia, which supported Perry's effort, said the judge's ruling will bring about change in Virginia.

"For the ACLU, the most important part of the decision is the judge's recognition that the Virginia law violates the right of free speech," ACLU of Virginia Executive Director Kent Willis wrote in a statement. "This clearly unconstitutional law will now almost certainly be repealed by the General Assembly or struck down in court. Either way, its end is near."

In further explaining why he denied the candidates an injunction, Judge Gibney wrote, "The traditional purpose of a preliminary injunction is to prohibit an action. Preliminary injunctions are meant to protect the status quo."

He continued, "In this case, the plaintiffs request that the Court require the Board to add their names to the primary ballot, which is a positive act that alters the status quo."

The candidates can appeal the judge's opinion to the 4th Circuit Court of Appeal, based in Richmond, Virginia.

"I am pleased that the district court is allowing Virginia's orderly election process to move forward. The ruling today dealt only with the request for a preliminary injunction. The litigation is ongoing, and therefore, I will have no further comment," Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli wrote in a statement released after Friday's ruling.

Republican Party Virginia Chairman Pat Mullins said, in a statement, he was disappointed that more Republican candidates are not on our primary ballot.

Political analyst Paul Goldman called the ruling predictable. He told CBS 6 he was glad to see Judge John Gibney believed Virginia's rules were unconstitutional.

"It needs to be fixed, and the State Board of elections knew this. I don't know why they didn't fix it before," Goldman said.

CBS 6 Political Analyst Dr. Bob Holsworth agreed.

"The General Assembly is going to have to change the way Virginia collects petitions in the future. I think there's no doubt about that," he Holsworth.

UPDATE on 1/19/12: Santorum "won in a recount" by 34 votes. I bet RP won by a landslide in Iowa, and that's the 9 vote districts that "went missing". It's too bad the RP campaign doesn't have an army of 50+ lawyers to litigate the vote in every state, because that's what it takes to win against election fraud at the party level. As the US Air Force Inspector General told me during my Congressional complaints that got the 4-star general USAF Chief of Staff fired for Iran-Contra while leading Desert Storm in Iraq, "If you want to play with the Big Boys, you have to know how to play the game."

Republican officials in Iowa today said that there was no clear winner in the caucus held there on January 3. Party officials said results from eight of the 1,774 precincts were missing when they conducted the vote certification process, meaning they likely will never know what the final tallies were for the candidates.

Despite the ambiguity, Rick Santorum was quick to declare a “virtual tie” in the race and the establishment media obliged him on the claim while ignoring how the change effected Ron Paul’s standing.

According to the Iowa Caucus website, the certified results of 1,766 precincts made public Thursday show Santorum with 29,839 votes, followed by Romney with 29,805, Ron Paul in third with 26,036, and Newt Gingrich with 16,163, Rick Perry with 12,557, Michele Bachmann with 6,046 and Jon Huntsman with 739. Party officials said 121,503 votes were certified.

The admission of voting irregularities and uncounted votes in the state adds more weight to the argument that the race was fixed in order to discount Ron Paul and push him to the periphery in a concerted effort to minimize his popularity among voters and upstage the handpicked establishment candidates.

On January 4, we reported on the Republican establishment’s decision to conduct the vote count in secret after vague threats issued by the shadowy Anonymous hacker group and protests planned by Occupy the Iowa Caucus.

“Also abusing suddenly lax ID registration may have created many fake votes for neocons Santorum and Romney,” Brad Funkhouser wrote.
“This is the biggest fraud since Kennedy stole the West Virginia Primary,” Funkhouser said.

If, as Santorum claims, he is virtually tied with Romney in Iowa, that would mean Ron Paul came in second, not third. The establishment media has neglected to report this fact. Instead, it has ignored Paul and continued its campaign to portray Romney and Santorum as the only viable candidates wrestling to gain the nomination.

Moreover, a reshuffling of the vote will change the dynamics on delegates as the front-runners head into the Republican national convention in Tampa, Florida during the week of August 27, 2012.

The new spin on the Iowa caucus reveals the obvious fact that establishment controlled caucuses, primaries and elections are highly manipulated and stage managed affairs. Only candidates handpicked by the ruling elite will be allowed to contend for the office of president, a job that has been reduced largely to an acting and script-reading position.

Quote:In total, eight different precincts in Iowa showed signs of fraud that included missing votes and stories that changed every time someone challenged them. Writer Jeffrey Phelps points out that the official caucus website in Iowa publicly states that the caucus results can never be officially certified.
http://www.examiner.com/conspiracy-in-denver/iowa-vote-fraud-official

And co-winner Ron Paul may be stripped of all his delegates in Iowa, after his son US Senator Rand Paul was arrested as a domestic terrorist by police state death squads...

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